Before Saturday's Penn-Princeton meet the Penn State women's track team took time to honor all 17 seniors. They each received a single rose, a small thank you for four years of hard work.

They hugged teammates, took pictures of each other with their own cameras and posed with their coaches. Senior Connie Moore even walked into the stands after the ceremony and gave her rose to her academic advisor who came to see Moore in her second to last meet at home. Moore made it back to the track just hours after finishing in second place in the collegiate 60-meter dash at the Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden.

Then it was back to business as usual.

The Nittany Lions coasted through the annual meet taking first place with 141 points.

Princeton and Penn weren't even close, finishing with 86 and 79 points, respectively.

Last week's Big Ten Indoor Track Athlete of the Week, Sara Dougherty, continued her awesome senior season taking first yet again in the pole vault.

She didn't even jump until the bar was set at 13 feet 1 inch. By that point most of the competition was already out of contention.

Dougherty sat in a chair next to the vault runway with senior Chi Chi Aduba on her lap and watched the competition unfold.

The bar kept rising, and eventually Dougherty started to warm up.

"I felt really good," she said. "It was more of a low key meet, like our coaches said, but we tried to keep up the team atmosphere."

Last week Dougherty's goal was to get over 13 feet, something she never did before.

She made it and then some, jumping 13 feet 5 inches -- a new indoor facility record.

It was obvious when Dougherty came in on Saturday she wanted to keep up the good numbers. She hit her first height of 13 feet 1 inch on her second attempt.

Dougherty wouldn't get any higher.

All three attempts at 13 feet 7 inches busted.

"I know I didn't jump as high as I did last weekend," Dougherty said. "It was still just good to get over 13 [feet]. That's a big barrier. Next weekend should be a big weekend, a lot of competition. I'm working toward 14 [feet], that would be a major jump."

Dougherty won with ease, something that radiated all over the track.

The meet gave the Lions a chance to mix up the lineup and run some athletes in races they never have before.

"It was a great opportunity for us to give the kids an opportunity to run some other events and have some fun," Penn State women's track coach Beth Alford-Sullivan said. "It keeps it fun for them, if they keep running the same race and fighting for it every time it gets hard for them."

The Lions face a rough week of training for next weekend's Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup. The showdown will be the first real test against Big Ten opponents this season.